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AMI Global Ambassador Ashley Shade and colleagues Nicole Geerdes and Adina Howe examine how plant-associated microbes can be leveraged to support crops grown on marginal lands for use as biofuel feedstocks.
A group of leading scientists has recently reviewed the benefits and risks of Gain of Function research and issued new consensus recommendations - Simon Wain-Hobson examines the report exclusively for The Microbiologist.
The concept that a viral infection may induce pathology in regions far from its active location is gaining traction. Could this phenomenon also be at play in Alzheimer’s disease?
Not one, but two promising new vaccines are likely to be introduced to the UK, yet routine childhood vaccination rates have been decreasing for ‘old’ diseases like measles and polio - what’s going on?
Why we’re liable to be ambushed by viral zoonosis - despite everything we’ve learned from Covid
Alina Chan reveals why it’s dangerous to insist that the lab leak theory is dead in the water.
Virologists should think thrice before embarking on gain of function experiments
The anthrax outbreak in Africa could be a harbinger of more to come, with climate change creating opportunities for the emergence of more cross-over strains capable of causing anthrax-like infections.
Council for At Risk Academics (CARA) Fellow Win Myo Thu on how to prepare for increase climate-induced displacement.
All too often we go about our days in science forgetting what other people’s journeys are like - so let’s fight for belonging.
The founders of Women Returners and STEM Returners on why their new partnership is vital to helping people back into STEM after a career break.
AMI Global Ambassador Ashley Shade and colleagues Nicole Geerdes and Adina Howe examine how plant-associated microbes can be leveraged to support crops grown on marginal lands for use as biofuel feedstocks.
Read storyAs new stretches of coastline become vulnerable to potential Vibrio outbreaks in a warming aquatic environment, Applied Microbiology International member Elizabeth Archer examines how human health is inextricably linked with ocean health.
The anthrax outbreak in Africa could be a harbinger of more to come, with climate change creating opportunities for the emergence of more cross-over strains capable of causing anthrax-like infections.
Lessons learned from the greatest local flood of the century in a province of Austria.